Lipsky cited a breakdown in the attorney-client relationship between he, Kaloidis and Acevedo as cause for the motion, which the judge granted.

Acevedo was arrested in June 2012 after a state trooper stopped the unregistered car he was driving and found two guns, ammunition, a crowbar and plastic zip ties inside the vehicle, police said.

Investigators believed the three men were en route to the Brookfield apartment of a drug dealer, where they expected to find three kilograms of cocaine and as much as $25,000 cash.

Though Acevedo initially faced charges including home invasion and conspiracy to commit home invasion, the state dropped the more severe charges and he was tried only on lesser counts of felony illegal possession of a weapon in a motor vehicle and possession of burglar tools and interfering with officers, both misdemeanors.

After a two-week trial, a jury could not reach a verdict and Pavia declared a mistrial in late January.

On Friday, Acevedo continued to reject all of the state's plea offers and his attorneys moved to withdraw from the case.

Pavia advised Acevedo that outside counsel will likely be contracted as a special public defender to represent him.

Public defenders in the Danbury office are already representing his co-defendants in the case.